A Natural History of Place in EducationHutchison argues that pressures on schools associated with declining budgets, competing ideologies, and economic/technological shifts have the potential to radically alter the landscape of the K-12 school experience. He discusses strategies for This book considers the philosophy of place in education and everyday life, the history of and current trends in school design, the school infrastructure crisis, and the relationship between the philosophy of education and classroom design. Hutchison argues that pressures on schools associated with declining budgets, competing ideologies, and economic/technological shifts have the potential to radically alter the landscape of the K-12 school experience. He discusses strategies for mediating these pressures and strengthening a sense of place in education.mediating these pressures and strengthening a sense of place in education. |
Contents
Introduction Place Pedagogy and Personhood | 1 |
The Meaning of Place in Education | 9 |
A Pedagogy of Place | 26 |
Architectural and Design Perspectives | 49 |
Visions of Dynamic Space | 77 |
No Place Like Cyberspace | 111 |
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A. S. Neill activities adults advocates aesthetic approach architectural areas argue cation Center for Ecoliteracy centers challenge chapter child childhood citizenship education cognitive community study congruency context critical Crow Island Crow Island School cultural curriculum cyberschooling democratic developmentally congruent disciplinary initiation discipline early ecological economic educa education in society educational philosophy experience of place focus geography global education ideological individual infrastructure inquiry learning instructional Internet learning environment learning spaces maps materials Montessori Montessori method movement naturalized spaces open-plan schools pedagogy personal computer perspective Pestalozzi's phenomenology philosophy of education physical place in education play programs proponents public education public school reform role Rudolf Steiner school buildings school design school districts school ground naturalization sense of place skills social study of place teachers teaching tion traditional values Waldorf education Waldorf school Winnetka year-round schooling York